, the latest romantic comedy from director Marc Lawrence purports to be one of those cutesy, funny things happen when two people are put into foreign or uncomfortable
positions kind of films.
Not exact matches
While we nonetheless do not know what
kind of destiny will throw the 2 again in combination, Jamie Lee Curtis has defined that the brand new
film is similar to the unique along with her «granddaughter» taking her
position.
Director Bennett Miller's upcoming release, Foxcatcher, certainly qualifies as the
kind of film that could be
positioned for awards contention, and now it looks like it's lining up for just that.
It's the
kind of publicity angle that
film distributors dream about, particularly as their prestige project is jockeying for
position in the forthcoming Oscar race.
Among the certainties in the world
of film criticism — there will be a series
of pieces bemoaning critics» inability to stop a terrible summer
film from becoming a blockbuster; Armond White will often stake out a
position in opposition to many
of his fellow critics; movies about middle - aged men having their mid-life crises sorted out by women well out
of their league will always receive mostly
kind notices; etc. — there's one that stands above all others.
Both
films cradle the richest poetry
of a longing glance or a well - told joke, with the camera itself acting as a
kind of spiritual guide, closing in around the characters and placing them in new and revealing
positions.
Beyond that, the
film's shrill sense
of confinement, the danger
of one man turning on another, and the unthinkable transformation going on in the cellar build to a startling climax — one that utterly upends expectations — followed by the
kind of absolutely genius ending that guarantees the
film's eternal
position in the annals
of horror cinema.